Spring Thunder Chapter 0192 Lijiapo
After Liang Huiwen left, Nan Yi said to Ruan Zhiping, "Go find out about the Li family. It would be best if they were all spendthrifts who indulged in drinking, whoring and gambling."
"Nansheng, things shouldn't be so smooth, right?"
"You know, it's just a good wish, just like praying for world peace."
While singing "Sing a Song of Huachu", Nan Yi boarded the plane to Lijiaopo.
In 1982, there were not many tall buildings in Lijiaopo. The OCBC Building was the tallest building in Lijiaopo, with a height of 198 meters.
There are no shopping malls lined up next to each other on Orchard Road, and the Orchard Mandarin Hotel in the distance looks a bit lonely. Nan Yi sat in the car looking at the low buildings on the side of the road, the sparse vehicles on the road, and occasionally a tricycle passed by.
An ordinary bicycle with a trailer installed on the side is called a human-powered sidecar.
Seeing a Ming Kee grocery store on the side of the road, Nan Yi pulled the car over and Liang Huiwen followed him into the store.
The items sold in the store are quite miscellaneous. There is a bookshelf at the door, which is placed at an angle similar to a shoe cabinet. Novels and magazines are placed on it. There are also two ropes above the bookshelf, with magazines clipped on them. Nan Yi took a look and saw both English and Chinese characters, both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
When you walk into the store, you can see a vertical magazine rack in one corner, which is also full of magazines; next to the magazine rack is a glass counter, on the left side of the counter are some miscellaneous daily necessities, and on the right side are some food.
There are various jars and cans on the counter, which are filled with various foods.
Nan Yi saw White Rabbit milk candy in one jar and Wenchang hawthorn slices in another jar.
"How come I didn't know that the hawthorn slices from Wenchangwei were exported?"
A question mark popped up in Nan Yi’s mind.
But if you think about it for a while, you will understand that this must have been exported by the supply and marketing cooperative.
There is also a wooden box next to the jar, which is filled with various tapes, including those from Taiwan, Japan, and Lijiaopo .
Looking up, you can see a shelf with a wide variety of goods on it.
There is also a cigarette display rack hanging next to the shelf, which has several common foreign cigarettes, several Malaysian cigarettes, and Indonesian Huang’s Zhenji cigarettes.
Through the goods in the grocery store, Nan Yi could roughly judge that compared with Xiangkeng, the economy here in Lijiaopo was much more backward.
After spending so long in the grocery store, Nan Yi felt embarrassed to leave empty-handed, so he took out a purple and green Singapore dollar note and bought two hawthorn slices, and got back a 50-cent, a 20-cent, and a 10-cent coin in change.
It’s 1 cent each, neither expensive nor cheap, but it’s a bit tiring to communicate with the uncle who owns the grocery store.
The old man can't speak Mandarin, and his speech is very mixed, with a bit of Hakka mixed in with Minnan dialect, a bit of Qiongdao dialect mixed in with Hakka, and a bit of English with a very heavy accent. I don't know how he can do business behind the counter with that accent.
Nan Yi guessed that this old man was probably here to help temporarily, as usually the one who looked after the store was either his wife or his son.
He walked out of the grocery store, tore off the wrapping paper of the hawthorn slices, picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.
This is the taste, absolutely produced in Wenchangwei.
This thing sells for two cents in China and ten cents here. According to the domestic exchange rate, the Singapore dollar is not as valuable as the RMB, and the price difference is less than five times.
It’s better not to calculate it based on the actual exchange rate, it will hurt feelings.
Anyway, the price of hawthorn slices should have increased by more than twenty times.
"Huiwen, take a car with you and go to a newsstand to buy all the newspapers you can, no matter if they are in Chinese or English, and no matter what day they were published."
"OK."
"Dewen, please ask the other cars in the hotel to go back first, and we will go for a walk."
"clear."
Dewen took the order and walked to the car. She whispered a few words to the driver, and all three cars drove away.
Nan Yi stood there and looked around, then compared it with the map in his hand. The place where he was standing should be the future location of Orchard Central.
The future Orchard Road will be home to many famous shops and will be a great place for shopping. He once accompanied a 17.5-tier actress here to shop.
"Damn, what was that actor's name?"
Nan Yi couldn't even remember her name. He only remembered that every time they did that, she liked him to call her "Action".
If you can’t remember, then forget it. Nan Yi walked out of Orchard Road and strolled leisurely on a road nearby, looking at the arcades on the side of the road from time to time.
The first floor of the arcade is basically filled with various stalls, with the most being fruit stalls and tailor shops. Various fruits are displayed outside the stalls, occupying a corner of the road. At the door of the tailor shop, dresses are hung on it.
Turning the corner, I saw an old lady burning paper on the roadside. Next to her was a woman in her forties holding a three-meter-long bamboo pole, standing far away and stirring the pile of burning paper.
The woman was wearing red slippers, and her calves were thick with arched veins. Through her earth-colored apron, one could see that she was wearing a red, white and black dress. When Nan Yi saw the bulge, he turned his eyes away.
There were several cars parked on the side of the road, a beige Toyota and a black Honda, and from time to time a few Honda and Yamaha motorcycles passed by.
Seeing a folding table on the roadside ahead with three girls eating noodles there, Nan Yi suddenly became worried about his food in Lijiaopo.
He also doesn't like Malaysian and Nyonya cuisine, so it looks like he'll have to eat Western food for a while.
They walked all the way to the seaside park. After standing on the beach and looking at the sea for a while, Nan Yi decided to go back to the hotel first.
After returning to the hotel, Nan Yi did not go out again. He ordered room service for meals. While checking the map in his hand, Nan Yi read all the newspapers that Liang Huiwen bought.
After reading the newspaper, Nan Yi had a general understanding of the situation in Lijiaopo.
In the central area, which is the most prosperous area, the price of a 4-room HDB flat of about 100 square meters ranges from 30,000 to 42,000 Singapore dollars, while in less mature areas it only costs 20,000 to 25,000 Singapore dollars.
How big is Lijiaopo? The main island is only 42 kilometers from east to west, and even shorter from north to south, only about 23 kilometers.
Buying a house near the north-south central axis will not be too far from anywhere. There is not much point in buying a house in the central area. At most, it lacks supporting facilities. But this does not make much sense to Nan Yi as he will not live there himself.
1 Singapore dollar is equivalent to 2.6 Hong Kong dollars. You can buy a house of over 100 square meters for 50,000 or 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. If converted according to the domestic exchange rate, a house of 100 square meters in Beijing can cost 20,000 to 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, let alone Hong Kong.
Forget about the Siheyuan. The Siheyuan that could be worth hundreds of millions in the future are now being sold for only 200,000 or 300,000 yuan.
It's enough to just watch the excitement of the Siheyuan. Nan Yi is not very interested in it. He just heard that this Siheyuan is worth 100 or 200 million, and that one is worth 300 or 500 million. How many people can he see who will actually buy it?
It’s fine for self-use, but if you want to sell it at a high price in the future, you’d better give up.
It sounds like it's worth hundreds of millions. If it can be sold for tens of millions, it would be great. It's similar to the company's valuation, one is worth trillions and the other is worth 500 billion. If it really sells, only a fool would buy it at this estimated price. Not to mention a bargain price, it's at least a discounted price.
Valuation and net worth are the most virtual things. Many people worth millions cannot even afford a pack of cigarettes.
Have you ever seen someone receiving the minimum living allowance while living in a house valued at tens of millions?
Nan Yi picked up the phone and made a call. After waiting for a long time, the other party answered the call.
"Orchard Mandarin Hotel, come quickly."
"Master Nan, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming to Lijiapo so that I could pick you up."
"Stop talking nonsense and come here quickly."
"Okay, I can be there in 20 minutes."
Twenty-three minutes later, Men Saner appeared in front of Nan Yi.
The breathing was calm, not breathless at all.
"How many square meters is the house you bought? How much did you pay for it?"
"It's 260 square meters. I bought it at a low price, a little over 120,000. Uncle Nan, do you want to buy a house?"
"I'll buy a few for fun and put them up in your name. I looked up the real estate policy in Lijiaopo and the price is much higher if sold to foreigners."
"Hang it up as you like, as long as you're not afraid of me swallowing it."
"Haha, you are brave enough to swallow it, but I am afraid you will not survive to get it. If you swallow it today, rockets will hit your house directly tomorrow."
"Is it Katyusha?"
"I still have three sets of cars. Let's stop talking nonsense. I have something serious to tell you."
When he heard that it was serious business, Men Saner's expression became serious.
“The newspapers said that Choa Chu Kang and Punggol are still rural areas, where people still raise chickens and farm. Is that true?”
"Except for the middle circle, there are a few ports. The corners of the main island are basically rural areas, with vegetable fields, pig farms, chicken farms, and flower gardens. Chicken farms are the most common."
"Come with me to Choa Chu Kang tomorrow. I plan to buy a piece of land there."
" Master Nan, what are you going to do? Take me with you?"
"Forget it. I'm going to work in biopharmaceuticals. I might invest billions of dollars and not see any results. I'm just taking a gamble. This gamble will take at least 30 years to come to fruition.
Before this, you could only invest money but not see any return. If you lose the bet, all your thirty years of work would be in vain.”
When Men Saner heard that it would take 30 years to see the return of his money, he backed out, "Master Nan, I can't see as far as you can. Who knows if I will still be here in 30 years?"
"Hahaha, if there really is an opportunity to make some quick money, I will definitely take you with me. Men San'er, you are different from me. You just need to live a good life, but I am already living for my son even though I haven't even seen where he is."
Nan Yi was actually talking nonsense again. After the patent of sildenafil expired, someone approached him to form a partnership to start a pharmaceutical factory to produce this stuff. He conducted research for half a year and finally found out that the pharmaceutical industry was too complicated, so he gave up the idea.
He can recite the patented formula of sildenafil by heart.
Not only sildenafil, while doing research, Nan Yi also learned about several other drugs whose patents had expired. The patented formulas of these drugs alone would allow him to make a fortune.
For others working in biopharmaceuticals, it is a gamble on luck, but for Nan Yi, it is basically in an invincible position.
If you can open a pharmaceutical factory in "Yin'an", you can make even more money. A cold medicine whose patent has expired eight hundred years ago only costs a few cents, but you can sell it for dozens in a pharmacy. It's so profitable.
There is no need for R&D expenses, just some entertainment expenses. Forget about R&D, wouldn’t it be nice to make some expired patented drugs?
Once the prescription is copied and the active ingredients are diluted, more dough balls are put in, and one box of medicine becomes effective as eight boxes for a course of treatment. Tsk tsk, sell seven more boxes of medicine. The Western devils are just idiots and don't know how to make money.
"Uncle Nan, speaking of sons, I'm about to have one." Men Saner said happily.
"Oh, I didn't hear you say that. Where are you from?"
"A foreign girl, 1.80 meters tall, very solid. I've only known her for a few months, but I'm such a great guy that I hit the target in one shot."
“Are you here for tourism?”
"No, their ancestral home is Eagle Country. Their family has been in Lijiapo for many generations."
"Then bring him out to see me some other day."
"Don't worry, there's no need to wait until another day. Just come to my place today and ask her to prepare everything for Master Nan. I tell you, Emma can not only cook Western food, but also Minnan cuisine."
"I have to try it. Okay, I'll go to your place for a meal today."
When they arrived at Men Saner's house, Nan Yi found that Men Saner was not bragging. Emma was indeed very solid-looking. He thought that Men Saner was bragging about her height of 1.8 meters. She was probably 1.73 meters at most. She had a very plump figure, and she carried two footballs on her body. She even had a baby voice when she spoke.
As for appearance, I won’t comment on it, as long as Men Saner likes it.
"Welcome, Nan."
"Hello, Emma, you can call me Adam."
Emma's English has a unique Lijiaopo accent, which is a bit uncomfortable to listen to.
"Okay, Adam."
When she spoke again, Emma had switched to Mandarin with a strange accent.
“Can you speak Chinese?”
"Yes, I went to university in Malaysia, where there were many Chinese-speaking classmates."
"Oh, I see."
"Emma, go cook first." Men Saner said.
"Okay, you two chat."
Emma said and headed towards the kitchen.
"Mensan'er, Emma is great, are you planning to get married?"
"She's already pregnant, so what else can she do if she doesn't want to have a baby? I like her a lot, so let's just leave it at that."
"From the sound of your voice, it seems that a lot of things happened to you without my knowledge?"
"Nan Ye, I have been in Lijiapo for quite a while, and indeed I have had stories with many women, but I found that this is the way it is. I got tired of it, and finally I met Emma, and we got along well. I decided to change my mind and live with her."
Nan Yi patted Men San'er's shoulder and said, "Very good. I have to learn from you in this regard."
"Nan Ye, what about you? When are you going to do it?"
"It's still early for me. Let's talk about it in two years."
"It's not early anymore."
"Um."
Nan Yi didn't want to talk much about feelings, and Men Saner noticed it. He quickly changed the subject and told Nan Yi about his experiences in Lijiaopo.
